I am attempting to upgrade my Phillips PTV-300.. I installed two new Seagate 120Gig IDE Drives, and it starts fine, but then just "hangs-up/Locks-up". The video freezes and the Remote Control fails to do anything. This unit originally had a 60Gig upgrade from TiVo, but I just can't seem to get it to transfer correctly to the two new HD's. I used WinMFS and the older MFS version 3?.

Does anyone have an idea? I have an old InstantCake {2002} for my Sony SVR-2000 - will that work. Do I need/can some one send me an image just for the PTV-300? Or is shelling out another $40 for another InstantCake my only option?

I am attempting to upgrade my Phillips PTV-300.. I installed two new Seagate 120Gig IDE Drives, and it starts fine, but then just "hangs-up/Locks-up". The video freezes and the Remote Control fails to do anything. This unit originally had a 60Gig upgrade from TiVo, but I just can't seem to get it to transfer correctly to the two new HD's. I used WinMFS and the older MFS version 3?.

Does anyone have an idea? I have an old InstantCake {2002} for my Sony SVR-2000 - will that work. Do I need/can some one send me an image just for the PTV-300? Or is shelling out another $40 for another InstantCake my only option?

Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide

Give up and use those two drives in a computer instead.

Series 1s are picky about which drives they'll work with.

Apparently they don't like Western Digital Caviar Blues, even SATA ones with the Marvell chipset SATA/IDE adapters that are otherwise the only ones that work in a Series 1.

And apparently they don't like matched pairs of Seagates, either.

I tried the same thing with 2 of the same model 160GB Seagate drives (IDE/PATA). And yes, I ran copykern so that I could use drives larger than 137GB.

Wouldn't work.

I could use either one of the Seagates by itself, it worked fine.

I could use either one of the Seagates as either the master or slave and a different brand drive as the other drive and it worked fine.

Together, there was something about them together that the ultra-picky Series 1s just don't like.

You can get a 1TB drive for $50 now, and the necessary SATA/IDE adapter for under $30, maybe well under if you look hard enough.

(I guess that's so the OS that loaded off of the cd can find something on the cd, like maybe copykern itself, or some part of it.)

Then you type copykern and follow the instructions.

Then you boot with the MFS Live v1.4 cd and run mfsadd to use the full drive.

For backing up and restoring, go to mfslive.org and download the image for the MFS Live v1.4 cd, and use it instead of any older MFS handling software.

WinMFS only works with backup images made with WinMFS, and nothing else works with those images, but MFS Live will work with backup images made by earlier versions and by MFS Tools.

When you use the

restore

command on the MFS Live cd, just use the -s option to set the swap partition size, and instead of

-xzpi

just use -i

Do not use -p on a Series 1. It puts a Series 2 and later partition layout on the hard drive that confuses an S1.

-x will be handled later by mfsadd

If I recall correctly from experiments I tried a while back, using the Sony image in the Philips (or maybe it was the other way around) would work to begin with, but it only responded to the remote it expected, so either I had to use the Sony remote with the Philips TiVo or the Philips remote with the Sony TiVo.

Others here and elsewhere have said that using the "other" brand's S1 image will eventually cause it to bork itself when it gets info or updates from the mothership and becomes hopelessly confused and schizo.

Just to be clear, I'm looking for an image I can restore using WinMFS. Other people have managed to get hold of this image on this board in the last few weeks, so it's out there somewhere...

Thanks in advance.

Are you physically unable to run MFS Live? Like as in don't have a PC and have to run WinMFS under some sort of emulation on a Mac?

'Cause if you can get an image which was made with MFS Live, you can use MFS Live to restore that image to the new drive you're going to be using, then use WinMFS to make a WinMFS compatible backup from that drive and then use WinMFS to write that image to the new drive.

although when i just restarted it then it came up with a green screen and said that my dvr has serious issues and it is going to atempt to fix and should take around 3 hours, i won't hold my breath. A image would be better then i can just transfer to a new drive.. presto.

although when i just restarted it then it came up with a green screen and said that my dvr has serious issues and it is going to atempt to fix and should take around 3 hours, i won't hold my breath. A image would be better then i can just transfer to a new drive.. presto.

So is it green screening on the original drive, or are you trying an image for the US version of the HD?

although when i just restarted it then it came up with a green screen and said that my dvr has serious issues and it is going to atempt to fix and should take around 3 hours, i won't hold my breath. A image would be better then i can just transfer to a new drive.. presto.

Ive tried everything and my last resort is to try here...Hopefully someone has a back up image (.tbk) for this Series 3 Tivo...Any help is much appreciated as I have tried every angle possible including begging Tivo for the OS which they will gladly allow you to download...Not having a linux box to load it onto the hard drive is a huge setback.